Meierijstad () is a municipality in the Dutch province of

North Brabant North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to ...

. The municipality is the result of a merger between the municipalities Schijndel, Sint-Oedenrode and

Veghel Veghel () is a town and a former municipality in Southern Netherlands. On 1 January 2017 Veghel, together with Schijndel and Sint-Oedenrode, merged into a new municipality called Meierijstad. This created the largest municipality of the provi ...

in 2017. After the merger it became North Brabant's largest municipality in terms of land area (surpassed by Altena in 2019). The town of

hosts the town hall, while the municipal council holds its meetings at the former town hall of Sint-Oedenrode.

Population centres

Topography

''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Meierijstad, 2020''

Notable people

* Hendrik Herp (died 1477) a Dutch or Flemish Franciscan and a writer on mysticism * Pieter de Josselin de Jong (1861 in Sint-Oedenrode – 1906) Dutch painter from North Brabant * Lou Tellegen (born 1881 in Sint-Oedenrode – 1934) Dutch stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter IMDb Database
retrieved 28 February 2020 * Ton Smits (1921 in Vegheland - 1981) Dutch cartoonist and comic artist *

Els Coppens-van de Rijt Johanna Elisabeth "Els" Coppens-van de Rijt (born August 18, 1943) is an artist and author from Vlierden, Netherlands. Coppens-van de Rijt was born in Sint-Oedenrode, as one of twins to a Roman Catholic family with 11 children. She studied at the ...

(born 1943 in Sint-Oedenrode) artist and author from Vlierden * Anton Berns (born 1945 in Schijndel) Dutch scientist researching

molecular genetics Molecular genetics is a branch of biology that addresses how differences in the structures or expression of DNA molecules manifests as variation among organisms. Molecular genetics often applies an "investigative approach" to determine the st ...

* Hein Van de Geyn (born 1956 in Schijndel) jazz double bassist, composer and band leader * Winy Maas (born 1959 in Schijndel) Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist * Nikki Kerkhof (born 1983 in Sint-Oedenrode) Dutch pop singer * Sophie Bongers (born 1998) stage name '' Sophie Francis'', Dutch record producer, DJ and musician, brought up in Sint-Oedenrode

Sport

* Wiljan Vloet (born 1962 in Schijndel) Dutch football manager * Monique Kalkman-Van Den Bosch (born 1964 in Sint-Oedenrode) Dutch wheelchair tennis player * Eric Verhagen (born 1964 in Schijndel) Dutch retired

sidecarcross Sidecarcross racing, also known as sidecar motocross, is a branch of motocross. While regular motocross riders use solo machines, sidecarcross involves a different type of motorcycle chassis operated by a team of two people: a driver and a sid ...

passenger and double World Champion. * Rein van Duijnhoven (born 1967 in Veghel) Dutch former football goalkeeper with over 500 club caps * Anky van Grunsven (born 1968 in Erp) Dutch dressage champion with nine Olympic medals from seven successive games * Jack de Gier (born 1968 in Schijndel) Dutch former footballer with over 400 club caps and current manager of

Go Ahead Eagles The Go Ahead Eagles are a Dutch professional football club from the city of Deventer in the province of Overijssel. They play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, having achieved promotion from the second tier Eerste Divisie in th ...

Earnie Stewart Earnest Lee Stewart Jr. (born March 28, 1969) is an American former Association football, soccer player who played as a Forward (association football)#Forward, forward or midfielder. His career spanned 17 years from 1988 until his retirement in ...

(born 1969 in Veghel) American retired soccer player with 474 club caps and the sporting director of U.S. Soccer * Stefan Jansen (born 1972 in Veghel) Dutch former football striker with over 330 club caps * Dillianne van den Boogaard (born 1974 in Veghel) Dutch former field hockey defender, twice team bronze medallist in the

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

and

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

* Theo Lucius (born 1976 in Veghel) Dutch former footballer with 402 club caps * Marloes Keetels (born 1993 in Schijndel) Dutch field hockey player, team silver medallist at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of North Brabant Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 2017